Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Twin Cities Area
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

